 RAIN 2/3: Karmazin addresses competing with Net radio, for in-car listening and for Howard! ·Feb 3, 12:47 PM NOT SURPRISINGLY, HE PLAYS IT COOL ON BOTH FRONTSSirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin, at a New York roundtable event this morning, was reportedly asked what he thinks about the possibility of Howard Stern leaving satellite radio when his contract expires next year, and instead of returning to broadcast radio, “leaving for an outfit — like Pandora — looking to avail itself of the same ‘Stern Effect’ that spiked Sirius’ subscriber rolls…”
As tech writer John Paczkowski reports in The Wall Street Journal’s “All Things Digital” blog, Karmazin isn’t too worried. “Howard would be sought after by anyone,” he said. “There are a lot of choices for audio content, and obviously the Internet is one of them. But the question is who’s going to be the largest player? And I think that’s our spot to lose.” At the event, Karmazin also commented on new competition from Internet radio enabled by in-dash Internet connectivity. He believes satellite radio can effectively coexist in the car with Internet, as it has with iPods. “I think the Internet (in the car)… will be a good competitor… We look at how sat radio performs in the vehicles where people have the ability to put an iPod jack in and we don’t see much of a difference. We believe them to be complementary.” Read All Things Digital here. “THIS AMERICAN LIFE” EXPERIMENTS WITH PAID iPHONE ACCESS TO ITS ARCHIVESPublic Radio Exchange and Chicago Public Radio have released a $2.99 iPhone app that allows listeners on-demand access to the audio archives of the popular “This American Life” (TAL). Currently, downloads of the most recent TAL episode are available for free for seven days, after which they’re available as a 99 cent download from iTunes (though still available as a free on-demand stream on the TAL web site). The new app, GigaOm reports, offers a complete searchable library of the show’s 15-year history, plus “behind-the-scenes content, alerts and live show streams.” There’s more from GigaOm here.
STREAMTHEWORLD TO REVEAL iPAD APP AT NABStreamTheWorld already has a handful of iPhone apps available, from iRadioNOW (for Beasley Broadcast stations) to individual station apps like Q101 or 93.3 KGSR. But at the NAB Show in April, StreamTheWorld says they’ll reveal an app specially designed for the new iPad tablet. Most existing apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch will also run on the iPad. Tom Taylor has more in his Radio-Info newsletter here.
UK’S ABSOLUTE RADIO MAKES PODCASTS AVAILABLE TO KINDLE USERSThe details are in a video on Absolute Radio’s (the former Virgin Radio) One Golden Square blog. Very simply, the broadcaster is making podcasts of its most popular personalities’ shows available as audio files for the Amazon Kindle. View the intro video here.
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I remember when Mel gave his last speech for Infinity radio in 2003 and pledged that satellite radio was absolutely no threat to FM & AM radio and had little future. About a year later he left Infinity to run Sirius. Will Mel be running an Internet radio company in the future?
— Jack Marconi · Feb 8, 09:09 PM · #